Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-26
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS
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The Kimball p~ostofice has a new
Yale outfit.
l.. q. Pattee, OF Willow Lake, Brule
County, was kicked by q horse at KIM.
ball Saturday and killed.
T~wenty-thres thousand gophers were
paid for by County CLERK N. G. Simon,
of Hyde county up to July LIST, at two
cents each.
Elmer E. Bishop, a young carpenter,
was instantly killed by lightning while
working on q house. four miles north OF
Dell Rapids.
A movement is being made for the or
ganization of a stock company, with a
capital Of SIS. 900 to build and operate a
public grain elevator in Dell Rapids.
The Dakota railroad commission met
in Minneapolis Tuesday for the pur-
pose of preparing grades and attending
to other details for the enforcement OF
the grain warehouse bill.
The townships in the north part of
Hyde county are to have q railroad
running from away northeast to Pierre,
and the residents in Hyde all along the
line are in a state of. gladstone excite
ment.
While James McGill, employed as q
wiper in the Manitoba shops at Minot
was in bathing he got beyond his depth
and was drowned in the Mouse river,
He is reported as having a wife and two
children residing in st. Paul.
Judge N. B. Reed, of Woonsooket,
who is now in Chicago, writes thaAs:..e is
informed by Illinois Central officials that
that company Will soon ran q survey
from Sioux Falls to Woonsocket, with a
view to extending the road to that point
another season.
A proposition has been received from
the Chicago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul
railroad to make Madison a passenger
and freight division. The company
asks the town to donate about eighteen
acres OF land lying alcng the south side
OF tle track from the depot west.
Bookings twine dealers attribute the
scarcity to the action OF the farmers
alliance, they claiming that they we're
going to buy for themselves, and conse-
quentiy tine dealers bought enough 10,
their regular patrons and no more. Now
it is hard to get, and much dearer than
if bought earlier.
M. v. Miller, of Washington. who.with
Prof. Foster hes been east buying stock
for the Bookings agricultural college
farm, returned Saturday and informed
the president that they had made pur.
chases to the fall amount of the appro'
pfiation. The Holsteins were bought
in New York and the Herefords in Chi
oago and the horses in st. Paul.
A resolution was passed by the farm
ers' alliance at their meeting at Huron,
asking the railroad commissioners to
enforce the grain and warehouse Law,
and that all elevators and warehouses
be required TO take ont license as pro-
vided by law; also to keep samples OF
grades OF grain, The alliance also took
measures for Incorporating, and placed
the capital at $500. 600.
Cass oounty's valuation by the assess
ment this year is $12,174 $50 an increase
OF $50 900 over lest year. There are 49,
900 acres assessed for q total of sc, 140,-
S92 an increase of sec. 900. 1--we stock
has been assessed about 20 per cent less
than last year. The number of horses
have increased 1000; cattle increased
1900, sheep 300; hogs decreased 500.
Stocks and shares are put at 1858 100
against $2s2.350 last year.
In some of the southeastern counties
OF Dakota are springs and wells in which
the water is said to be ohalybeate. There
are said also to be salt wells in the north
eastern part Of the territory. Springs
issuing from the black clay shales Of the
cretaceous on Beaver creek in the Black
Hills were found to be strongly acid and
astringent to the taste, turning blue
likeness red. and probably containing
sluul and free sulphuric aoid. Similar
springs we're reported near Buffalo
Gate, on the southeastern side of the
Black Hills. There are in Dakota
twenty-three springs localities contain
ing tWenty-six individual springs, of
which number six heze been analysed.
Two spring localities are utilized as re-
SORTS. None are used commercially.
The grand jury OF Rapid City. at the
term just closed. returned twenty in
dictmeiits. Give were disposed OF. Ola
Adams, indicted for assault with intent
to commit rape. WAS found guilty, o